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Cook the books
To manipulate accounting information, especially illegally.
📖 Definitions of "Cook the books"
verb
- 1
To manipulate accounting information, especially illegally.
"Enron Corp., once a major U.S. corporation, is now famous for cooking the books."
- 2
(by extension) To falsify an account of an event.
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